Tuesday, August 28th

Mesopotamia

-Commonly thought as the first civilization but is just the area where the first civilizations

-Cities by the River: Khorsabad, Nippur

URUK:

-In about the year 5000 B.C.E the city of Uruk was founded

-Uruk had 50,000- 80,000 people in its 6 km by km walls

-It was the largest city at that time

NIPPUR:

-It was considered a sacred group

-Nippur was formed around the year 500 B.C.E

-But hit its peak around 2500 B.C.E

NINEVEH

-One of the oldest cities

-Founded around the year 6000 B.C.E

-They became very religious worshiping the goddess Ishtar

HOW THE RIVER WORKED?

-Tigris and Euphrates

-They valley between the Tigris and the Euphrates River was known as the land "between the rivers" in Greek

-There was never a regular supple of eater in mesopotamia but the soil was in enriched

GEOGRAPHY

-Its in between the Tigris and Euphrates River

-It mainly desert in the north and mainly marshes. lagoons, and mudflats in the south

-The south gets a lot of rain. Mostly crops are grown down there and the rivers irrigate the crops in the dry season

-Many objects traded were animals, wine, donkeys, gemstones, camels, pottery, and horses

-Lots of trading was done with the Persians and ancient India, but they also traded with Afghanistan and Egypt

CULTURE

-They used cuneiform to write

-They used advanced mathematics invented the wheel

-Only the sons of prominent people could go to school

RELIGION

-They believed the world was a flat disk they was surrounded by vast hollow space and that this was enclosed in an over-arching heaven

-The sea was all around the earth, top bottom and sides

-They were a polytheistic society (More Gods)

SPORTS

-Hunting, wrestling, polo, Majore

GOVERNMENT

-Were a monarchy, first code of laws, they believed that their rulers were descendants of Gods, and broken up into a city-state system

INDUS: Father of Rivers, Orginating for the Tibetan Plateau, located in South Asia

GEOGRAPHY: The Indus Valley had deserts and mountains protecting them naturally

CULTURE: Religion uncertain, People were born into social classes, Women were valued, When Kids grew old they took on the parents jobs

-They made crafts, agriculture, toys

HARAPPA- One of first cities was located at Harappa

Three Classes

MOHENHO-DARO- Dived into two portions, Citadel was the lower city, public bath, and they had their own water wells

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